Objective -
The aim of this research is to analyse the difference of abnormal returns, shares liquidity proxies by trading volume activity and a company financial performance proxies by current ratio and price earnings ratio before and after the rights issue.

Methodology/Technique -
Samples were taken by purposive sampling. Number of samples are 26 companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange that take the right issue for the year 2006 -2012. Testing of the hypothesis was done by using paired sample t-test for normally distributed data and Wilcoxon signed rank test for data that are not normally distributed.

Findings -
The results of this study showed that there is a significant difference in share liquidity proxies by trading volume activity before and after the announcement of the rights issue. After the right issue there are decreasing the number of trading volume activity because shareholders prefer to maintain their proportion of the share capital.

Novelty -
The increasing number of companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange showed that there is positive growth of capital market in Indonesia. To be sustain in the market, companies need to improve their competitive advantage by optimizing resource utilization such as financial resources. One of the corporate action to raise the capital is the right issue.